I had a chance to go to Narita to send off a group of people last month. After that job was done, I decided to stop by at Traveler’s Factory Airport at Narita Airport Terminal 1. I was at Terminal 2 so took a free shuttle bus circulating around the airport to Terminal 2. I think this is my 2nd visit to this store. I was in Narita last year and wanted to drop by but due to the covid, this outlet was closed for almost 3yrs!!

I am a fan of Traveler’s Notebook and been using for years. (Google, Traveler’s notebook or check youtube for more info, there are tons of them.) Japanese stationary are so fun, I’ve grown up using them and I think they are the best. On this visit, these are what I got (pic below) : A tiny water color sketch book, a postcard, a sticker and a limited edition Onsen Diary (That fits to regular size Traveler’s notebook.).

I haven’t open the onsen diary yet but each page are printed with a little map of Japan and are spaces to fill out the data of the onsen you had visited. My husband is a onsen lover, he even applied and took a course to become a Onsen Sommelière, he took me to tons of onsen until I was 100% sold and became an onsen lover too. I had been to countless Onsens but I don’t even remember half of them anymore !! I took these trip for granted and when Traveler’s Notebook announced they are making onsen log notebook, I just had to get them.

Traveler’s notebook have several retail stores in Japan which are : Their flagship shop in Nakameguro, a small kiosk in Tokyo station, Narita Airport terminal 1 and Kyoto. Each store have their own limited items and if you are Traveler’s notebook freak, you have to stop by at their Nakameguro shop. Whenever I’m there, I see visitor’s from all over the world, I bump into Korean, Taiwanese and American tourist the most.

I own two Traveler’s notebook, one in passport size (the camel one) and one in regular size (the dark blue one). I use the passport size for daily schedule. In my passport size, I attached a monthly schedule book from a different brand call NOLTY, the paper is super thin and I jot down my daily to-do’s and notes. I have a blank notebook attached behind my monthly schedule which I use it as my collage scrapbook. Business cards, wrapping papers, used tickets, all sort of stuff are collaged in this notebook. I also have a cardboard pocket folder attached in between to store extra papers and stuff.

I log my daily routine in my regular size notebook. I have a weekly vertical diary attached in this notebook and I log in my activities, what I actually did kind of things here. In the monthly page, I log in my physical condition, how I felt that day, I have a blank note attached behind my weekly diary and I use this notebook for jotting down my daily menu (what I cooked sort of data), my future ideas, what I want to cook kind of infos.

These two notebooks are arranged in a Japan-domestic mode at the moment but when I travel abroad, I re-arranged my notebook by removing some and attaching a new ones to suits my tasks. Traveler’s notebook are very primitive but they give me freedom to arrange it anyway I want.